For Immediate Release: Lily’s Pool Kaspars Groševs, Ieva Kraule, Kristīne Kursiša & Miks Mitrēvics, Daria Melnikova, Evita Vasiļjeva, Armands Zelčs Curated by kim? Contemporary Art Centre Exhibition: January 22–February 21, 2015 Opening reception: Thursday, January 22, 6–8pm Art in General 79 Walker Street New York, NY 10013 http://artingeneral.org Press contact: Aimee Chan Lindquist
[email protected] Lily’s Pool 2, 2014-15. Courtesy of the artists and kim? Contemporary Art Centre. Art in General presents Lily’s Pool, a group exhibition organized in partnership with kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia as part of the International Collaborations program. Now I will tell you what happened at the Lily's Pool. A welcome ceremony. It was on the verge of North and South. Yet everyone remembered a sunlight. Some say it was a perpetual flight, others claim the moon needed one half of a turn. Featuring the work of seven emerging Latvian artists, the group exhibition Lily’s Pool attempts to capture the presence of subtle, tangible, and poetic phenomena within a mediated post-Internet, “post-natural” culture. The participating artists utilize the varied mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, textile, and performance to grapple with the personal and historical memory of materials in a contemporary society engrossed in the fleeting structure of the digital. The works in the exhibition create environments that are at once palpable and uncanny, examining how the physical and social body is affected by accelerated temporalities and the sensations of high-speed browsing and sharing in daily life. A karaoke performance by Kaspars Groševs will take place during the opening reception on January 22, 2015.